Danielle Turney

Direct comparisons with the 1930s are ahistorical and unhelpful: 2025 simply is not 1930s Germany. BUT what we can look at are patterns. And on the basis of those patterns we absolutely can see common trajectories here. I would also urge everyone again to remember that death camps and … 1/2

Heseltine at the Tory conf:

"Fascists of the 30s are back... Trump's language coincides with words here... The immigrant has replaced the Jew as the problem. We must make clear we will never have any part in the populist extremism of Farage... We don't need Trump's mouthpiece anywhere near No. 10.”

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

Not just NHS.
That's the thing with anti-immigration policies, as well as harming migrants themselves, they harm everyone. Undermining infrastructure and industries inevitably causes a decline in services and additional job losses for non-migrants as a knock on.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

Here is a thing that I hear from *almost every British Jew I know* but have barely heard expressed in any of these programmes: No single person has done more to make Jewish people globally less safe than Benjamin Netanyahu.

It’s easy to say that this is the last desperate hurrah of a dying party, but can we be clear: Trump’s ICE agents are literally kidnapping people, detaining them without due process in concentration camps (yes, this is the right term) and 1000s have disappeared. These are fascist practices.

Yup, chaos, corruption and cruelty - not to mention complete disregard for law and due process ... I'm sure the Tory party can style it out

"I see gangs of masked thugs roaming the streets rounding up anyone the wrong colour, and I think: *this* is what Britain needs."

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Disgusted and furious that ANY British politician believes anything "modelled on Trump" is even worth thinking, never mind saying out loud

What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.

Although journey out this morning was fine, despite involving 2 train companies, similar fun and frolics travelling home this afternoon: delay of 20+ mins on 1st train because "congestion", late for connecting train so a wait for next one, then 3rd train in the chain cancelled. Did last bit by bus!

Head spinning reading this. We are truly through the looking glass and in a place where language (and sense) has been vapourised:
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Your Badenoch Gaffe Counter is spinning! Must be quite a job to keep up with them

Apart from anything else, it seems to completely disregard the reasons why someone would seek asylum in the first place - and therefore the circumstances their family may still be living in ...

More like the hokey cokey. :(

Keir Starmer's Farage-Dominated Conference Takes Labour Up a 'Darker Path' Towards a Reform Government The Prime Minister's condemnations of Reform's racist rhetoric, was undermined by him accepting the central premise of Nigel Farage's anti-migrant politics, argues Adam Bienkov

Once again Labour's strategy is to say that racism is terrible, and therefore we will defeat the racists by giving them almost everything they want
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Yep, clue is in the name - they are called *human* rights for a reason. The dehumanising of others is a really dangerous path to start down - and it is no good thinking that the people who do that won't at some point extend their net to include other groups they don't accept: you, me, whoever

Screenshot from pg. 96 of AAUP v. Rubio, which reads, in part: "Such conduct, of course, violates his sacred oath to “faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and . . . to the best of [his] Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” U.S. Const. art. II, § 1, cl. 8, by ignoring the Constitution’s command that the President “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,” U.S. Const. art. II, § 3. The fact that the President is, for all practical purposes, totally immune from any consequences for this conduct, Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593 (2024), does not relieve this Court of its duty to find the facts. Fed. R. Civ. P. 52(a).

A simply extraordinary factual finding in Judge William Young's ruling concluding that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment in targeting Mahmoud Khalil and other pro-Palestinian student advocates:

The president violated his oath and his duty to faithfully execute the laws.

This is such an essential phrase: “The only Constitutional rights upon which we can depend are those we extend to the weakest and most reviled among us.”

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

Political journos are all noting how surprising it is that it’s now all about Starmer v Farage, not Starmer v Badenoch.

Except it’s not surprising at all, given the very same journos have been platforming this poundshop Alf Garnett for years, when he wasn’t even an elected MP.

A point to make, and one that seriously bugs me - the photograph that goes with this article is of asylum seekers, not the migrant group that made up 96% of migration last year, that would in future be affected.

I have to ask - why not use a picture of a care worker? Or a student?

Yes, there’s a reason alright.